Maxell Portable Wireless Hard Drive 500GB review

Playing videos on iOS was limited to MP4 and H.264 files. The Android app has marginally better file format compatibility, playing some MKV and Divx files. Most of these videos had muted audio, though, and we could only hear it by downloading the file to the Android device and opening the file in another video player app.

We had no problem viewing photos or playing music. Disappointingly, there’s no way to upload files to the Drive from the iOS app, while the Android app is limited to uploading photos and videos taken using the app. You can’t upload existing ones from your camera roll.

The Maxell Wireless Portable Hard Drive is a mediocre wireless hard drive with apps that could be a lot better, and it’s not cheap at 24p per gigabyte. The 1TB model of the similar Seagate Wireless Plus is available for just £20 more or just 14p per gigabyte and is the better wireless disk for your smartphone or tablet.